Links Next Door (03/05/2014): THATCamp Digital Writing Edition

Every week, I’m compiling a list of links that entertain and delight me, challenge and baffle me. I’m doing this as a sort of curating project, but also as a way to keep the blog afloat as I keep working on my dissertation.

Today, I attended THATCamp Digital Writing which is an “unconference” dedicated to discussing Digital Writing. I thought it would be helpful for myself (and those who attended) to curate some fascinating links that were shared throughout the day (everything culled from lighting talks, tweets and sessions. If you want anything added — in terms of other resources or attribution, contact me via twitter or at bet.manuel(at)gmail.com!)

– The Kaminski Handwriting Archive: “The mission of the Kaminski Handwriting Collection is to provide a free and public place for all people to share and to learn about the many types of handwriting as it exists among all people; as such, it will create a record of the many variations and will serve those hoping to understand handwritten work now and in the future.”

– Juxta Commons: “Juxta is a tool that allows you to compare and collate versions of the same textual work.” A great tool that can work as both as a scholarly resource as well as a teaching resource that can help students visualize revision.

Shows the various revisions of The Declaration of Independence.

– ICA Philadelphia Tamarin Norwood: A Fine Line. A fascinating exhibition of an artist dedicated to examining the very materiality of handwriting and its digitization.

New York Times’ great article that seamlessly uses videos, images, slideshows and infographics alongside text.

– Throughout the event, we tweeted with the hashtag #TCDW14 but if instead of scrolling through the endless tweets you just wanted a visualization of what we chatted about, look no further than the Tag flow at TAGSExplorer and you can learn more about that particular tool here.

– Top 10 Editorial Management Tools: A great list on a number of workflow management tools used in mostly journalistic and entrepreneurial environments but nevertheless interesting for anyone looking to implement them in the classroom.

– Edit Flow: “Edit Flow gives you custom statuses, a calendar, editorial comments, and more, all to make it much easier for your team to collaborate within WordPress.” Despite this being a professional WP Plugin, how can we use these types of tools in the classroom?

– Mural.ly: “Mural.ly is an online whiteboard designed to visually organize ideas and collaborate in a playful way.”

– Neatline: “Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines. As a suite of add-on tools for Omeka, it opens new possibilities for hand-crafted, interactive spatial and temporal interpretation.”

– VoiceThread: “Text alone can’t deliver the subtlety and expression required for meaningful connection. If text were enough, we wouldn’t use emoticons, get on planes, or use web-conferencing software. VoiceThreading is a more human way to connect.” Fascinating tool to think of poetry in a different light (in terms of gestures).

VoiceThread

– Mozilla WebMaker: “We’re a global community dedicated to teaching digital skills and web literacy. We explore, tinker and create together to build a web that’s open and made by everyone” — very cool resource for teaching digital literacy.

– Hipster Ipsum: “Artisanal filler text for your site or project,” hipster-style. Definitely one of the more fun links shared today!

– MediaThread: “Mediathread, the open source multimedia annotation platform developed at the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL).”

MediaThread

– Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing: “This comics-style collaboration between rhetoricians Elizabeth Losh and Jonathan Alexander and illustrator team Big Time Attic presents the content of the composition course in a form designed to draw students in.”

Great comic for thinking in terms of multi-media

– Annotation Studio: “Annotation Studio is a suite of collaborative web-based annotation tools currently under development at MIT.”